Float-wire guide.



H. F. GOETZ.

FLOAT wme sums. APPLICATION FILE D JULY 26, I917.

i gfl, Patentedfiept. 11,1917.

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HENRY F. GOETZ, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR T0 WATERBURY MFG.CO., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

FLOAT-WIRE GUIDE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 11., 19.1133.

Application filed July 26, 1917. Serial No. 182,864.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY F. Gonrz, a citizen of the United States,residing at WVaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State ofConnecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Float-WireGuides; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connectionwith the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference markedthereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, andwhich said drawings constitute part of this application anid represent,in

Figure 1 a view in side elevation of a float-wire guide embodying myinvention, and shown as in use.

Fig. 2 a detached plan view of the device.

My invention relates to an improved floatwire guide for water closettanks, the object being to produce at a low cost, for manufacture, asimple, compact, convenient and effective article of the characterdescribed.

With these ends in view my invention con sists in a float-wire guide forwater closet tanks, the said guide having certain details ofconstruction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in theclaim.

In canrying out my invention, as herein shown, I produce from a singlestrip of sheet metal, a float-wire guide comprising a band 2 adapted indiameter to be clamped upon the overflow pipe 3 of a water closet tank,the said band being formed at its free end with a clamping arm tcarrying a clamping-screw 5 which passes through threaded holesextending transversely through the inner ends of the two members 6 and 7of the straight fiat shank of the device. The said shank is produced bybond ing upon itself that end of the blank opposite from the end of theblank strip from which the band 2 and-arm f are formed, the two extremeends of the strip overlapping as shown in Fig. 2. In producing the saidshank, guide eyes 9 and 10 located one above the' other are formed atthe fold of the blank-strip, these guide eyes being separated by a space11 and being large enough to receit e the float-wire 12 of the float 18with sufficient freedom of movement to allow the float-wire to movefreely up and down in the eyes. The upper end of the float-wire is bentat a right angle to form a stop-arm 1a, which prevents the wire andhence the float, from being disengaged from the guide.

Hy improved device, as thus made, is compact in form, easily applied andadjusted, neat in appearance, and is less liable to cramp or foul thefloat-wire than is a floatwire guide made of cast metal and drilled forthe passage of the float-wire through it.

I claim As a new article of manufacture, a float wire guide for watercloset tanks, the said float-wire guide being made of a single piece ofsheet metal shaped at one end to form an open band terminating at oneend in a clamping arm and having its opposite end bent on itself to forma shank the fold of which is expanded to form two guide eves located oneabove the other, and a clamping screw passing through the clamping-armof the band and through the two parallel members of the shank.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

HENRY F. GOETZ.

WVitnesses:

Gno. WV. GARDNER, CHESTER L. HENIoN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

